OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sociological Methods & Research is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research	284
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified	166
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream	88
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables	63
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework	63
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning	45
Cheap Learning: Maximizing Performance of Language Models for Social Data Science Using Minimal Data	44
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)	35
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys	34
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research	22
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes	20
Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model	19
From Codebooks to Promptbooks: Extracting Information from Text with Generative Large Language Models	19
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies	17
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations	16
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention	15
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites	15
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–2020	14
Causal Inference for Latent Markov Models Using the Parametric G-Formula	13
Generative Multimodal Models for Social Science: An Application with Satellite and Streetscape Imagery	13
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat	13
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate	13
In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey	12
Networks Beyond Categories: A Computational Approach to Examining Gender Homophily	12
Self-protecting responses in randomized response designs: A survey on intimate partner violence during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	12

Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study	12
The Sociological Power of Methodological Rhetoric	11
Challenges in Multilevel Modelling: Cross-Group Measurement Noninvariance and Measurement Errors. A Monte Carlo Simulation Study	11
Biased Processing and Opinion Polarization: Experimental Refinement of Argument Communication Theory in the Context of the Energy Debate	11
Methodological Frontiers in Intergenerational Mobility Research	11
Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages	10
Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status	9
Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry	9
When to Use Counterfactuals in Causal Historiography: Methods for Semantics and Inference	9
Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition	9
Iteration in Mixed-Methods Research Designs Combining Experiments and Fieldwork^,	9
3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision	9
Simulating Subjects: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence Stand-Ins for Social Agents and Interactions	8
What Good is Qualitative Literacy Without Data Transparency?	8
Geographic Variation in Multigenerational Mobility	8
Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery	8
Assessing the Impact of the Great Recession on the Transition to Adulthood	7
Improving Cross-Cultural Comparability of Measures on Gender and Age Stereotypes by Means of Piloting Methods	7
Theoretical Foundations and Limits of Word Embeddings: What Types of Meaning can They Capture?	7
Monitoring Attitudes Over Time: Real Change or the Result of Repeated Interviewing?	7
A Joint Model for Longitudinal and Time-to-event Data in Social and Life Course Research: Employment Status and Time to Retirement	7
An Optimal Stratification Method for Addressing Nonresponse Bias in Bayesian Adaptive Survey Design	6
A Tool Kit for Relation Induction in Text Analysis	6
Estimation and sensitivity analysis for causal decomposition in health disparity research	6
Correcting the Measurement Errors of AI-Assisted Labeling in Image Analysis Using Design-Based Supervised Learning	6
Age, Period, and Cohort Analysis With Bounding and Interactions	6
Simulation-Based Sensitivity Analysis in Optimal Treatment Regimes and Causal Decomposition With Individualized Interventions	6
Generalized Intergenerational Mobility Regressions	6
Social Encounters and the Worlds Beyond: Putting Situationalism to Work for Qualitative Interviews	5
Locating Cultural Holes Brokers in Diffusion Dynamics Across Bright Symbolic Boundaries	5
Promise Into Practice: Application of Computer Vision in Empirical Research on Social Distancing	5
Two-sample Age-period-cohort Models	5
Measuring Class Hierarchies in Postindustrial Societies: A Criterion and Construct Validation of EGP and ESEC Across 31 Countries	5
Social Rigidity Across and Within Generations: A Predictive Approach	5
A Method for Estimating Individual Socioeconomic Status of Twitter Users	5
Do Quantitative and Qualitative Research Reflect two Distinct Cultures? An Empirical Analysis of 180 Articles Suggests “no”	5
The Insight-Inference Loop: Efficient Text Classification via Natural Language Inference and Threshold-Tuning	5
Against the Mainstream: On the Limitations of Non-Invariance Diagnostics: Response to Fischer et al. and Meuleman et al.	4
The Unrealized Potential of Audits: Applicant-Side Inequalities in Effort, Opportunities, and Certainty	4
Deep Learning With DAGs	4
The Augmented Social Scientist: Using Sequential Transfer Learning to Annotate Millions of Texts with Human-Level Accuracy	4
Visual Design and Cognition in List-Style Open-Ended Questions in Web Probing	4
Deceptively Approachable: Translating Standards in Qualitative Research	4
Sequential On-Device Multitasking within Online Surveys: A Data Quality and Response Behavior Perspective	4
An Exploration of the Presence of Positive-Results Bias in Qualitative Comparative Analysis	4
Current and Future Debates in Video Data Analysis	4
Graphical Causal Models for Survey Inference	4
Absolute and Relative Mobility: Two Frameworks for Connecting Intergenerational Mobility in Absolute and Relative Terms	4
A Bayesian Semi-Parametric Approach for Modeling Memory Decay in Dynamic Social Networks	4
Comparing Methods for Estimating Demographics in Racially Polarized Voting Analyses	3

Machine Bias. How Do Generative Language Models Answer Opinion Polls?	3
The Design and Optimality of Survey Counts: A Unified Framework Via the Fisher Information Maximizer	3
Estimating Causal Effects of Multi-Valued Treatments Accounting for Network Interference: Immigration Policies and Crime Rates	3
The Impact of Survey Mode Design and Questionnaire Length on Measurement Quality	3
Conceptualizing Job and Employment Concepts for Earnings Inequality Estimands With Linked Employer-Employee Data ¹	3
Untapped Potential: Designed Digital Trace Data in Online Survey Experiments	3
The Additional Effects of Adaptive Survey Design Beyond Post-Survey Adjustment: An Experimental Evaluation	3
Estimating and Correcting Degree Ratio Bias in the Network Scale-up Method	3
Addressing Missingness in Serialized Bureaucratic Data: The Case of Chinese Courts	3